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The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, along with our sponsors, are proud to host eight top-flight speakers and thinkers as part of Congress 2014’s Big Thinking lecture series. Our Big Thinking speakers will present forward-thinking...

Ryerson University has been selected to host the 2017 edition of Canada's largest academic gathering, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, which organizes Congress every year, and...

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences applauds the creation of the Social Innovation Endowment Fund by the Government of Alberta. With an investment of $500 million in Alberta’s 2014 budget, and another $500 million next year...

Véronique Mallet, Fédération des sciences humaines Les résultats sont connus! Quatre postes au Conseil d’administration de la Fédération des sciences humaines étaient en élection au cours des deux dernières semaines. Les gagnants sont les suivants...

Christine Mitchell, Department of English, Concordia University The Concordia University community will take a peek into its past later this week when its Media History Research Centre holds a screening of two half-hour television episodes produced...

Eleanor Fast, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Career Corner at Congress, a well-established tradition, is expanding to include more events relevant to scholars at all stages of their careers. Organized in a partnership between the...

Quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer and poet, “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” Unfortunately, this paradigm is not universal. Concerns about Canadian...

The MakerBus team, Ryan Hunt, Kim Martin, and Beth Compton Things aren’t looking very bright for the arts and humanities at the moment. In our current age of austerity, arts and humanities budgets are easy targets for spending reductions. In both the...

Jean-Marc Mangin, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) traditionally offers little space for the humanities. There were however several panels which included social...